In 1902 Hunslet visited the Watersheddings, Oldham. Hunslet had to field a greatly understrength side due to an engineer’s strike. Striking players were classed as not in employment and barred from playing under the bye-laws. There were already players on the injured list and the patched up side were no match losing 0-26 in a…
Making their first appearances for Hunslet today were two forwards. Firstly, in 1931 was Mark Tolson. Before taking up rugby he had captained Leeds City Boys at football, progressing to Leeds United’s register. He made just the one appearance in his first season and was behind James Traill, Len Smith and Henry Moss for a…
Hunslet RLFC have signed former Rochdale Hornets loose forward Emmerson Whittel on a two-year contract.
In 1949 at the home game with Leeds, the Hunslet supporters bought their programmes to see favourite Frank “Shanks” Watson was selected in the centre. However, as the players entered the field Jack Evans and Maurice Thornton were in the centres. Then Frank came on in a blue and amber jersey and was playing scrum…
Deputy Lord Mayor, Cllr Barry Anderson, and wife Caroline were in attendance on Friday at the Clubs heritage night which took place in the Phoenix Bar.
Hunslet are sad to announce the departure of Director of Rugby, Darren Higgins.
Hunslet RLFC are exploring a potential change in our ownership model — moving from fan ownership to bringing in a traditional individual investor / consortium model.
An update from CEO Neil Hampshire following the news that the Championship and League One will merge into one single division in 2026.
Hunslet RLFC have signed former Rochdale Hornets loose forward Emmerson Whittel on a two-year contract.
Hunslet RLFC are delighted to announce that club legend Jimmy Watson is back in the myrtle, white and flame for 2026 after signing a 12-month contract extension.
Hunslet RLFC are delighted to announce the signing of Jamaican International winger Mo Agoro.
Hunslet RLFC are delighted to announce that 2025 Player of the Season Billy Jowitt has signed a new 12-month contract with the Club.
Hunslet RLFC-sponsored Handwriting Competition , now in its second year, had a bumper number of entries on display at The Great Middleton Park Show this September.
The 2026 North v South Series kicked off in style at South Leeds Stadium on Saturday with 120 youngsters from either side of the river wearing their colours with pride. The player development programme is organised by the Leeds Rhinos Foundation, and we are proud to play our part in supporting it. Spectators were treated…
For the second year running Hunslet are running a handwriting competition at 6 of our local schools. The initiative is the idea of Club Volunteer Pat Benatmane. Pat explained “Year 4 children, aged 8 to 9 years are competing to win the Handwriting Competition. In its inaugural year, Beeston Primary and Middleton St Mary’s were…
The 1946 Challenge Cup Semi–final at Headingley against Wakefield Trinity certainly had plenty of incidents. Anticipating a 35,000 attendance, the police had announced plans to control traffic and spectators using police radio cars, quite an innovation at time. As it happened the crowd of 33,000 didn’t cause the problems the police anticipated and all were…
Members of HIST you are invited to the Hunslet RLFC Annual General Meeting on the 18 January 2022 at 7pm. Once again this will be online, members should have been sent an email with the meeting link, please also check your junk email boxes. This is your annual opportunity to review the performance of our…
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Sunday 6th May at 10.00am in the Phoenix Lounge at South Leeds Stadium.
| N. | Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | PD | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | 24 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 764 | 299 | 465 | 40 |
| 2 |  | 24 | 19 | 0 | 5 | 651 | 314 | 337 | 38 |
| 3 |  | 24 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 678 | 366 | 312 | 36 |
| 4 |  | 24 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 602 | 450 | 152 | 32 |
| 5 |  | 24 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 594 | 424 | 170 | 29 |
| 6 |  | 24 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 640 | 461 | 179 | 28 |
| 7 |  | 24 | 11 | 2 | 11 | 454 | 475 | -21 | 24 |
| 8 |  | 24 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 528 | 533 | -5 | 22 |
| 9 |  | 24 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 525 | 559 | -34 | 21 |
| 10 |  | 24 | 8 | 0 | 16 | 468 | 548 | -80 | 16 |
| 11 |  | 24 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 381 | 689 | -308 | 12 |
| 12 |  | 24 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 386 | 751 | -365 | 10 |
| 13 |  | 24 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 256 | 1058 | -802 | 4 |
